Tag: ftp

I hate people who do reviews on new distributions 20 minutes after the official release however I needed to vent my spleen as soon as possible with regards Fedora’s latest offering, version 9 (Sulphur).

As far as Im aware it was released slightly earlier than announced but I may be wrong anyway I supposedly downloaded the DVD via HTTP, I know they want you to use Torrents but they are crap in my opinion, unless you have a T1 connection youll get shafted most users close their connection once completed anyway, I know I do and the download speeds are abysmal compared to FTP. Anyway I left it downloading over night at work and the next day it had completed (Or so I thought) shoved a blank DVD-R in and got the size mismatch error Hm, never mind lets carry on anyway shoved the now burnt DVD disc in the ROM drive of my employers Dell GX150 (PIII 800, 256MB, 40GB) And lo did it grind to a halt at vmlinuz .. no errors or anything just sat there like a scared rabbit caught in the headlights of my rage.

OK Ill download the Net-install iso, I prefer that method anyway after downloading and burning same thing it stuck about eight dots into the vmlinuz and refused to proceed. Now I did notice the installer dropped the background splash screen so that it was almost a Text-Mode install could it be the Dell is not good enough? OK ripped out the hard drive containing my working Fedora 8 and shoved it into a Compaq D51s (P4 2GHz, 512MB) and away we go, plonked in the install URL and it happily chugged along. By now it was getting close to home time so I left it until this morning when I came into work it was waiting for me to re-boot.

I was presented with the new fangled login panel, I hate it, well it might not be that bad but I preferred the one I had before. From day one I’ve used and liked KDE, Fedora 9 ships with KDE4 by default, now I know there has been lots of anguished screams about this so I was expecting huge improvements Oh you young impressionable fool its pants yes you can now resize the panel except a quarter of the bottom of mine is missing! I’ve tried resizing it, the display and even the monitor all to no effect. The Icons on my applets cannot be changed I’ve changed them but no they refuse to change then I clicked on the Trash can and it disappeared! How the F do you get it back? there isnt a trash can applet in the choices so I was a bit stumped however after logging out and in again it reappeared like magic. Everything has changed of course slab menu instead of a list menu (Soon changed that by the way) Control Centre has gone its now similar to the Gnome set up. So far the only new things Ive found is Dolphin file manager and this Clean Up tool to erase all your cookies, recent documents ect.

I did do an update, which was fun, a panel popped up saying there was updates available I duly typed in my root password and the panel closed Whats happening? I knew it was doing something as the HDD light was flickering away but I had no GUI progress to watch once the HDD had stopped whirring I did a quick yum update from a terminal saw there was no updates available and so presume the update worked?

Ive only been running Fedora 9 for a couple of hours so shouldnt really comment on it but so far Im not overly impressed especially as Im now running a Gnome session as apposed to my normal KDE one.